Austrian-Jewish Literature

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Dagmar C. G. Lorenz (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.2: German-language Writing and Culture: Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 800-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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Literature Topic

Dates

Date of occurrence 1780

Places

Austria (Location)

Cultural Identities

Jewish European

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Jewish writing is a constitutive element of modern Austrian literature. Over the centuries Jews were the most prominent non-Christian population of the Habsburg Empire. Jews comprised approximately 1% of the population, but Jewish writers and authors of Jewish background were at the forefront of cultural criticism and journalism in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. They were also pioneers in psychology, science, history, and philosophy, in experimental literary genres such as satire, cabaret, and film, and they excelled in traditional literary forms, prose fiction, drama, poetry, essay, and aphorism. Some of the most acclaimed authors and critics of Jewish descent of the Empire and the first Austrian republic (1919-1938)…

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Citation: Lorenz, Dagmar C. G.. "Austrian-Jewish Literature". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 August 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1468, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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